Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Here Comes the Info!

Long-time readers here will remember how many times I've urged the athletics department to at least come CLOSE to matching the efforts and frequency of this blog.

In all fairness, the recruiting news is not something the university can handle because of NCAA rules.

But I do hope this new initiative and promise will mean more profiles of the players, more updates on what the coaches hope to achieve in the coming season, and more analysis of what we need to do to eventually win an Ivy title in our lifetimes.

Another great part of the announcement was the long list of Columbia faculty who have pledged to be a part of Head Coach Pete Mangurian's plan to get more of the non-athletic department involved with the team in a positive way. Let's hope these people prove the conventional wisdom wrong when it comes to the faculty's reputed hatred of athletics.

And finally, the news that the Spring Game, (or at least the finale of spring practice), will be a little later than usual and is slated for May 4th is also good news in my book. The later the better, because I'd like to see the team evaluated as close to the summer as possible.

Too bad about Davison. He was one of our top ranked recruits, as I recall. But sometimes recruits are below the radar until we see them on the field. Connors is a good example. By the end of the year he was playing at an all Ivy level.